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the dairy. The season has been so wet that very little meadow 

 grass has been cut. 



Wobum (W. H. Bartlett). — Corn is late, but will be all 

 right before frost, unless it comes unusually early. Some fields of 

 potatoes yield very well, while others are hardly worth digging; 

 no blight or rot. Squashes will be a light crop, the high winds 

 having twisted the vines beyond recovery. Tomatoes are ripeniug 

 very slowly, some fields blighting and others looking very well. 

 Cabbage stump-footed badly and worms have done some damage. 

 Cucumbers are a light yield. Beets, turnips and carrots are good. 

 Apples few and poor, very few peaches, pears small and knurly, 

 plums a full yield but are rotting on the trees. Much attention is 

 paid to poultry and it is increasing. To sum up ; it has been a 

 cool, wet season; eaily crops, good yields and poor prices; late 

 crops, light yields and better prices. So far, August prices 

 have been the best for fifteen years for market gardeners. 



Winchester (Marshall Syjimes). — Late-planted corn is much 

 better than early. Eowen will certainly be much heavier than for 

 years. Potatoes are blighted, some rot, crop surely very light. 

 Very few apples, pears heavy crop, peaches fair. Pasturage is in 

 fine condition. Very little poultry is raised. Owing to cold and 

 continued wet weather, the squash crop will be a very small one. 



Franiingham (H. S. Whittemore). — At the present time the 

 prospect is good for a fair crop of Indian corn. There is prospect 

 of a good crop of rowen. Potatoes are a poor crop ; blight is 

 universal and there is some rot. Very few apples, pears plenty, 

 some peaches, grapes a small crop. Pasturage was never better 

 at this season of the year. Oats were good and were mostly cut 

 for hay. Barley not as good as some years. Not much interest 

 is taken in poultry except by a few. Onions have blighted and 

 will be a poor crop. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Amesbnry (F. W. Sargent). — Indian corn is late and not 

 likely to come to maturity. Where the first crop was cut early 

 there is the most rowen I have ever seen. Potatoes are a poor 

 crop, with considerable blight and some rot. Apples scarce, pears 

 plenty, some peaches and a few grapes. Pasturage is in the best 

 condition ever known in August. Oats and barley are about aver- 

 age crops. On most farms poultry is a side issue and the propor- 

 tion of profit hard to calculate. 



West Newbury (J. C. Tarleton). — Corn is backward and not 

 n as good condition as last year. Rowen promises well. Potatoes 



